Exciting Numbers

Yin Changgui took out the six thousand that Xia Yu had just given him and pretended to reluctantly hand it back to Xia Yu, "Mom, you just bought a house, and there are many places to spend money. Take this money and use it first."

"I have money, I don't need yours, you can go now." Xia Yu didn't want to get entangled with Yin Changgui any longer.

Yin Changgui could also see Xia Yu's disgust for him, but he felt it wasn't a big problem; after all, how could there be any lasting grudges between a mother and her son? It would be better by tomorrow.

With this in mind, he left cheerfully. Instead of going back to work, he took a leave and went home to discuss with his wife.

"What? You still want to improve the relationship with your mom?" His wife's face changed immediately.

Yin Changgui didn't panic, he said slowly, "My mom bought a villa in town for 200,000."

"Is it the one next door?" Upon seeing Yin Changgui nod, she first inquired about the price, "I've seen that villa; the asking price was at least 220,000. I can't believe your mom got such a bargain."

"Is that the problem?" Yin Changgui slammed the table, "A 200,000 villa! I've only saved a little over a hundred thousand now. And she must still have money in her hand, she's really capable, hiding this from her three sons!"

"We must plan this carefully."

The two of them started to discuss together.

On the other hand, after getting rid of Yin Changgui, Xia Yu was entangled by her second and third sons. While the third son, Yin Dingjie, was mostly out of concern, the second son had some other thoughts mixed in.

As these two were normal sons, Xia Yu couldn't treat them like Yin Changgui, so she let them help clean the villa and asked them to pick up Yin Ling in the afternoon.

When she returned to the countryside home, Xia Yu finally began her medicine-making experiment, working until after eight o'clock at night, when game time was about to end.

After tidying up the yard and turning off the lights, Xia Yu began to calculate her finances. 100,000 was used to repay external debts, 90,000 for internal debts, 200,000 to buy the house, and some miscellaneous expenses. Now, only 100,000 was left in Yin Shulan's account.

If she had known she would spend so much this quickly, she should have kept more at the beginning.

Should she go back again? Xia Yu hesitated, as going back twice in a row would be too conspicuous.

Let's try to use what's left for now, and if it's not enough, she can ask An Siyao for help.

To put Yin Shulan at ease, Xia Yu explained to her that the money would definitely be sent later and returned to her own body.

She checked her skill panel and saw the medicine-making skill was still at lv2, a bit away from lv3.

This skill had no use at the moment, it could only be combined with herbs.

If she really wanted to make it useful, perhaps it could be used to create medicinal cuisine.

But Xia Yu didn't know how to cook.

Turning her body, she picked up her phone for a while, and then Xia Yu went to sleep.

The next morning, she arrived at school, opened her workbook to continue working on problems, and found that the pages were already filled with answers.

I didn't write that much yesterday!

This stewardship AI must be toxic! If you already finished, what am I supposed to write?

Fortunately, this was a language workbook, and there were still math problems left.

Xia Yu checked the answers for Steward Yu once again, got them all correct, but there were still some empty spaces left to work on.

For those empty questions, Xia Yu tried to answer them, but all were incorrect. However, Xia Yu knew the answers to the questions that had been written.

Although Xia Yu knew the answers, he definitely couldn't get every single one correct without any errors. Perhaps during the college entrance examination, he could let the entrusted Yu do the work for him? This idea flashed through his mind and was abandoned by Xia Yu. Who knows whether the score the entrusted Yu got would count towards his completion of the mission.

When it was the penultimate lesson of the morning, the math teacher entered the classroom with a stack of test papers: "The art teacher for the next class has something to deal with, so we'll change it to a math class. We'll have two classes in a row, so let's take a test."

Sighs of frustration echoed from the students below.

Xia Yu also put away his math practice collection book. It would be too conspicuous for him to do practice problems while others were taking exams. After all, exams and practice problems were the same; as long as he did them.

Picking up the test paper, Xia Yu began to write. Fortunately, he had reviewed the math practice problems in the morning since the language practice problems had been completed by the entrusted Yu. He picked up the forgotten formulas and theorems again.

At the first glance of the question, Xia Yu could know whether he could solve it or not. If he could, the knowledge points and exam points would immediately appear in his mind, and as long as he thought about it slightly, the solution would emerge.

This was the power of exam-oriented education at level 4. He didn't need to rack his brains. Just one glance, and he would know if he could do it or not.

He quickly finished answering the questions, not knowing the last blank in the fill-in-the-blank question, nor the last small question in the penultimate application question, nor the last small question in the final question. In the middle, he forgot a formula.

Multiple-choice questions? Su Province's college entrance examination did not have such luck-based questions.

Xia Yu checked the time, thirty minutes had passed.

He stood up and handed the test paper to the math teacher.

"Are you done?" The math teacher, who was arguing with someone on a forum on his mobile phone, looked up at Xia Yu in surprise.

"I don't know the rest." Xia Yu replied.

"Well, there's no point in thinking about what you don't know." The math teacher nodded, put down his phone, and took Xia Yu's test paper.

He asked Xia Yu, "Do you want to walk around the school or just sit there?"

Xia Yu chose to go back to his seat. He picked up his math book, memorized the forgotten formula, and reviewed the other formulas.

Xia Yu had thought that after acquiring the skill of exam-oriented education, he would still need a lot of practice. But now he found out that he was mistaken.

Take the just-concluded test, for example. Besides the last question in the fill-in-the-blank and the last small questions in the last two application questions, everything else seemed simple to him.

Even with those three questions, he felt that he was just lacking some knowledge. Otherwise, he might have been able to solve them, or at least write a few more steps and get one or two points.

In this way, with a total of 160 points in math, he could at least score more than 140 points, already close to those who topped the college entrance examination.

After all, math formulas were much easier to remember than ancient zither music.

However, he still had to continue doing practice questions and raise the level of exam-oriented education to level 5. Only then could he be sure of getting the first place.

So he continued doing practice problems.

Watching his actions, the math teacher nodded in approval; his attitude was not a problem. After arguing on the forum for a while and finding that he couldn't win, the math teacher put down his phone, picked up Xia Yu's test paper, and took out a red pen to correct it.

In his opinion, Xia Yu, who hadn't attended class for such a long time, had a good attitude and a good foundation, but he must be struggling now.

Getting a score of 110 would not be easy.

He got the first ten easy questions right, which was not bad.

He even got the slightly difficult eleventh and twelfth questions right, which was very good.

Surprisingly, he also got the high-difficulty thirteenth question right?

Fortunately, the fourteenth question was left blank.

As he continued to correct the paper, the math teacher's eyebrows gradually furrowed.

After correcting the entire paper, he calculated the score to be 137.

He didn't know why the simple question in the middle was left blank; otherwise, he would have scored 145 points.

In previous years, the best students in liberal arts scored just under 150 points in math.

With the pen in his mouth, the math teacher fell into deep thought. This test paper was obtained from a friend, and it was planned to be used for the school's monthly exam next week, so there was no possibility of leaked answers.

Could his grades grow against the trend even after not attending class for several months?

At the end of class, when the teacher had collected all the test papers, he stopped Xia Yu and pointed at the blank question on the test paper, asking, "Why didn't you write anything for such a simple question?"

"I forgot the formula," Xia Yu replied.

Considering he hadn't attended class for so long, it was normal to have forgotten the formula, the math teacher thought. That is to say, his test score could have been 145 points?

The math teacher fell into deep thought.

He handed Xia Yu's test paper back to him and left the classroom in silence, holding the test papers.

Returning to his seat with the test paper, Xia Yu was caught by the collar by Gui Zixiao, who said, "You're so lame for forgetting even the formula."

Gui Zixiao had heard the math teacher's words and saw the teacher frowning when correcting the test paper, thinking he knew the truth.

He was happy in his heart, for before that, Xia Yu had always been ahead of him in terms of grades. Now, it was finally his turn to strike back!

If the scores affected Xia Yu's college chances, Gui Zixiao would still feel sorry for him, but now that Xia Yu already had a recommendation, it didn't matter how many points he scored, so Gui Zixiao felt triumphant and wanted to take a jab at Xia Yi.

He comforted Xia Yu, "You haven't been to class for a long time, right? It's normal to have a low score."

His face was full of pride as he took Xia Yu's test paper and said, "It's okay to have a temporary setback. How about this, I'm free this weekend, I'll help you make up for the lessons. I estimate my score this time can reach 120 points!"

As he spoke, he turned to the first page of Xia Yu's test paper and glanced at the bright red score.

137.